Rotary Club of Lombard Newsletter

The Lilac Rotarian
May 19, 2008
Volume Fifty One, Number 5

Rotary Corner - This month I would like to introduce the Lombard Rotary Club Scholarship winners. You will get to meet them at the Scholarship Luncheon. Lauren Wittert, $1000 Emil Goellner Memorial Scholarship, Montini. Kamal Mahmood, $1000 Jim Bell Memorial Scholarship,G.E. Abdullah Hassan, $1000 Rose Tani Memorial Scholarship, G.E. Elizabeth Erb, $1000 Dick Arnold Memorial Scholarship, G.E. Erin Jenkins, $1000 Rotary of Lombard Scholarship, Montini. Durga Thakral, $1000 Ward Fleming Memorial Scholarship, G.S. Mary Versaci, $2750 Don & Harriet Neuses Memorial Scholarship, Montini. Elisa Lieb, $2750 Howell Holloman Memorial Scholarship, G.E. Ashley Kanelos, $3250 Henderson Memorial Scholarship, Willowbrook. Sara Biladeau, $1000 Rotary of Lombard Scholarship, Willowbrook.

May Board Meeting Highlights - See the secretary.

Welcome To Our Speakers: On April 24th, I was absent from lunch, and since no one took notes I don't know if we had a speaker or not. So there. But on May 1st, it was the blue ribbon panel consisting of Rich G., Rick S. and Kathy V. On May 8th, there was no speaker. On May 15th, our speakers were Stephanie Walsh and Amy Liss from Easter Seals, who let us know that Easter Seals was started by a Rotarian named Edgar Allen and is the 2nd largest Health Charity in the U.S.

Honored Guests: On May 1st, Pat Poskasil, from the Historical Society was on hand to receive a check from club, Gary Bird's son in law, Calen Currence,Jean Johnson, Hank from Ludington, Ayden Lalani from V.P. Rotary and Aaron Rochholz who will be inducted today as our newest member. On May 8th, Diane Arturi was our guest. On May 15th, our guest was prospective member Art Frerichs.

Fines and Happy Fines: On May 1st, the Sgt, Caught Doc walking in late, Steve, Tom, Bob McB, Kathy & John N for pin violations and John gave a larger amount of cash so the sgt. Wouldn't bother him for the rest of the meeting. Brian got fined for a not so nice comment about light shining off of Jim I. head and Rick sat at one table and decided to move to another, but he took a roll with him leaving the table one roll short. Picture fines were paid by Ron, Ralph, Bob McB. and Deb. Happy Fines were in abundance by Kim, whose daughter turned 18 and was accepted to Valpo. Bob M. was happy that a day was set aside for Dan Tani. Rich was happy that John was back. Brian was happy that his grand daughter who is on JV badmitton made 1st place on team and 1st place in singles. Dennis was happy that after years of trying and that if you work hard , you get to sit with the cheerleaders, like Dan Tani. And after Aaron was inducted as a member of club, everyone paid a dollar for our newest member. We sang Happy B'day to Kim and Steve. On May 8th, Pat was late, as was Connie. Ed S. paid a badge fine, Dennis was caught on the phone, we had two bankers (Greg and Pat) at the same table and two Exec's (Deb and Yvonne) sitting together. Bill, Ray and Yvonne were all smiles as they were caught on camera. Happy fines from Yvonne, who was glad the Craft Fair was a success and now the Lilac Ball tomorrow night. I was happy that my son will be graduating from Western Illinois on Saturday. And Ralph has two grand kids graduating H.S. and 2 graduating 8th grade.(His poor check book) John B. had a b'day and as is tradition he would match what club members would donate. On May15th, Deb was hot on the heels of Steve and Kathy V. for pin violations, Bob McB., Jim B., Connie, Kathy, Doc Arndt and John BB for late fines. Jean and Jim B paid up for not being at the board meeting. Bill, Tom, Yvonne, Deb and yours truly for picture fines. And for those who were not in the Many Faces of Lombard pullout …pay up. Happy fine time. Rick was happy that his daughter was graduating and also has a job, Yvonne was happy about leaving for Amsterdam, to visit her son. Bob McB. was happy that the GE Boy's Volleyball team is now ranked #1 Steve's son Chad was honored at the Senior Honors at GE and the same for John BB whose daughter Maggie was honored by the Jaycees and Rick was the presenter. Ed S. son was also honored the same night. Jim B. was happy to hear that park View school and it's principal Cathy Tobin were the recipients two years in a row for the Veolia Award. And he travelled to U of I for the battle of the Middle School Bands and Westlake band was voted one of the 6 best in state, and won honor band also. Deb's son Kyle is graduating from NIU this weekend.

Announcements: On May 1st, President Steve announced the board meeting minutes were available up front and the Scholarship lunch sign up sheet would be going around. On May 8th, Prez Steve announced Tammy Duckworth, would be at the Elgin Rotary Club luncheon and that the board meeting is next week. On May 15th, Dennis announced that he was in Springfield visiting his daughter and saw no sight of Gov. Blago. And he behaved himself. President Steve announced that June 19th would be set aside for the rest of Paul Harris inductees to be honored. And he also read a thank you from Pat Poskosil.

Object of Rotary - or Be Reminded: the first regular (Thursday) meeting of every month is "Food or $5" as members will have the choice of bringing a food item to help supply for the Food Pantry or pay a $5 fine of to support First Things First. When a speaker is not scheduled on the first Thursday of each month, the time will be spent in quality fellowship and member to member interaction.

Weekly Raffle, On May 1st, Jean picked the Jack of clubs. On May 8th, the back table had the winning ticket and Doc picked the 3 of Hearts. On May 15th, Bob McB's table won and Brian picked the Ace of Diamonds.

Birthday Celebrations: Recent and upcoming birthday celebrations of note include:

May 11 Ron Mensching
May 17 George Goetshell
May 23 Bob Carter

Mark Your Calendars:

Scholarship Luncheon May 22nd Villa Nova
Installation Dinner June 26th Villa Nova

Check the Website: Take the time to visit the newly revised www.lombardrotary.com to see the latest edition of this newsletter as well as other information relating to our Club. If you have any additional features that you would like to see posted, please send it my way….thanks!

Board Meeting: The next Board Meeting is June 19th @ 7:15a.m. @ Hi-View Restaurant.
 
 




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